Andrea Abney
Principal User Researcher at Activision
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAndrea Abney is a Principal User Researcher with 11 years of experience building and scaling UX and consumer insights practices across games, entertainment, and enterprise products. She has led teams from startup to corporate scale—helping grow Scopely’s UX org, founding Valadria’s research and operations, and currently shaping research at Activision—while driving measurable product and business outcomes like an Amazon #1 bestseller. Comfortable with both qualitative and quantitative methods, Andrea combines hands-on research, process design, and people leadership to embed user-centric decision-making across organizations. Her background spans consumer apps to medical devices (and yes, even a castle), reflecting a curiosity for unusual projects and an ability to translate diverse user needs into actionable product strategy.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Human-Computer Interaction, MS, Human-Computer Interaction at DePaul UniversityBA, Psychology, BA, Psychology at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Github Skills (32)
vitejs10
hci10
ranking9
react9
vscode9
science9
computer-science8
micropython8
vite8
bbc-micro8
robotics8
artificial-intelligence7
p5js7
natural-language-processing7
database7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
makinteract/p5js-wrapper
Dec 2021 - Jun 2022
A simple wrapper package for p5.js
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 14 pushes in 6 months
p5js
makelab-kaist/makelab.github.io
Nov 2023 - Jul 2026
Contributions:120 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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